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Miranda Spencer discusses Britney Spears' new memoir and the harms of conservatorship.

I was shaking and crying as I told a stranger everything about my life, and they looked at me like I was a criminal. Like I was crazy. I started to think maybe I was.

This is the story of Sherita and her son Tony, and her efforts to help him following years of psychiatric drugs and hospitalizations.

In order to recover, it was necessary to give up the psychiatric treatment system, and the idea that I need something from that system, that I belong there.

There is a core concept shaping the ‘market’ in health, the concept of an assay, that few doctors or patients understand.

Les Ruthven addresses the lack of evidence for antidepressants being better than placebo, as well as a note about ECT.

Revealing concerns about BetterHelp’s ability to provide quality, secure treatment—and the unresolved tensions in the science of psychotherapy that services like BetterHelp exploit.

The patient is talking, if sometimes more or less metaphorically, about real experiences. Hallucinations and delusions are not meaningless.

The STAR*D Study has been cited as real-world evidence of the efficacy of antidepressants. In truth, it told of a failed paradigm of care.

I’m glad we’re chipping away at the cracks in psychiatry and psychology and de-privatizing our lives.

Les Ruthven addresses the scientific literature on antidepressant efficacy and FDA approval.

A roundup of Mad in America's most read blogs and personal stories of 2023 as chosen by our readers.

Extreme ECT memory loss is like having Alzheimer’s, and being fully cognizant of it. It takes away who you are as a person: your self-identity.

Dr. Warme bucked convention, examining the cultural role that shamans, witch doctors, and placebo cures played in medicine.

I have watched as my father’s pursuit of happiness was swept away by the court system in his senior years.

I consider synchronicity and sequencity connections to be gifts. The meaning involved is often much deeper and more personal than other people will recognize.

A new study in Frontiers of Pharmacology finds that antidepressant use during pregnancy is linked to reduced motor skills in children at 2 years...

Beginning the discussion on depression and antidepressant drugs. Are they as effective and safe as psychiatry claims?

In adolescent depression treatment, those who received a placebo but thought they received Prozac improved more than those who received the drug and knew it.

I dreamed of a place where healers weren’t afraid of intense states like madness. They embraced it; maybe they’d been through it themselves.

I often think about how the situation could have played out, had that nurse and the doctor chosen kindness rather than aggression and impatience.

Healing from our deepest wounds comes through being in connection with people who cherish us and take us seriously.

In Part 2 of our reader Q&A podcast, MIA founder Robert Whitaker answers questions on pharmaceutical marketing and issues with psychiatric treatments including psychiatric drugs and electroconvulsive therapy.

The mental health system is always trying to get more resources for itself, insinuate itself into every aspect of life, subsuming every aspect of the fulfillment of human rights.

About healthcare's focus on back end treatment rather than front end treatment: treating the symptoms rather than the causes of the health condition.